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This first crime novel written by Alan Fisher is not a story of brutal murders and mutilated bodies. His gentle story is more of a puzzle where readers are asked to look at the evidence shared throughout the book and find the killer before their identity is revealed. June 2014. Oliver Cole graduates from Hendon Police College as a Detective Constable and heads off to his choice of posting to Northumbria Police in the North East of England. Cole is a shy but highly regarded new recruit with a talent for puzzle solving; from his first day he comes under the instructional wing of long-serving ...

Just released from prison, Trip Walker’s hopes for a fresh start are shattered after finding his twin sister Rose has vanished without a trace. Determined to uncover the truth, Trip plunges into the dark past he left behind, only to find powerful forces are also hunting for Rose—with sinister intentions. Dodging hired killers and crooked cops, he races to find his sister, all while uncovering secrets of his own family’s past. With time running out and enemies closing in, Trip faces an impossible choice: abandon his search, or risk everything—including his newfound freedom—for the ...

Ben Weaver relocated to a small desert town to escape his past failures. But not everyone is happy with Ben’s arrival. When a young girl vanishes from her bedroom the morning of the town’s famous Harvest Moon Festival, Ben uncovers an unsettling legend dating back to the town’s inception. With the local’s distrust of outsiders, Ben will discover how dangerous this sleepy desert town can be.

Robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train, from Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will...

Samantha Patrick has spent years outrunning a nightmare she never dared to name. No one knows what happened to her—not the truth, not the terror—until the monster she escaped steps back into her life, threatening everything she loves. The secret she’s carried for decades is about to surface… and revealing it may cost her life.

In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally...

After learning that his grandfather has been arrested for murder, celebrity stand-up comedian, Chucky Riles, and his business manager, Ronnie Duncan, take a hiatus from the entertainment industry to go back to their hometown to assist Chucky’s grandfather, Kirk Smoot. Once they find out Kirk has confessed to murdering his best friend, Chucky and Ronnie find themselves involved in an investigation which goes back years in the making. During their search for the truth, Chucky and Ronnie rekindle relationships with people of their hometown including their two old girlfriends they had left ...

The first enthralling book of a gripping murder mystery series that will take your breath away... Thirty years ago, Detective Inspector Rita Gupta's mother disappeared. Rita never gave up the search, but her hopes faded with time... Until now. A skeleton is discovered in the remote hills of the North Yorkshire Moors near Scarborough, where Rita grew up. DNA tests confirm the woman is Clara Winters, Rita's mother. Rita takes leave from work and heads up north to Scarborough, to lead the investigation. She comes across a town full of whispers, lies and dangerous secrets that some powerful men...

When hikers vanish without a trace in the local forest, Jenna must confront her own haunted past. As she communicates with a former victim in her dreams, a 20-year-old cold case resurfaces—one that may hold the key to finding her long-lost twin sister.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Hunt by Oscar De Muriel, a Christmas tale from the world of Frey & McGray, read by Andy Secombe. Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly trying time in Edinburgh, Inspector Ian Frey looks forward to a Christmas break at his...

An ex-New York detective, now working as a freelance investigator in London, Thomas Blume hunts for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge. But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled police, he unwittingly becomes part of a world full of criminals, thugs, and corrupt cops that will do anything to stop him. Now, in a country he doesn't understand and a city stacked against him, Blume must fight to expose the truth.

A murdered brother. A billionaire art collector. A socialite and her daughter on a mission for revenge. Diana Beyer, a former high-flying ‘It Girl’ in Zürich, uncovers the truth about her brother's death: the killer is a billionaire fugitive who has found sanctuary in Switzerland, believing his wealth makes him untouchable. Her grief turns to purpose as Diana realizes she has the perfect weapons to bring him to justice: inside knowledge of the world he now inhabits and her daughter Tanya’s art gallery that provides an irresistible opportunity. From exotic villas to luxury yachts, the...

In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, America is in chaos and Eddy Hart is thrust right into the middle of it all. Enlisted into a government agency no one knew existed, Eddy must foil a Nazi plan to eliminate notable Hollywood celebrities—among them his ex-girlfriend, starlet Marsha Rivers. But all is not what it seems, and Eddy must survive the war within a war—mobsters, unions, Irish gangs, the power elite and politicians all positioning themselves for control when the war ends.

Addie Greyborne loved working with rare books at the Boston Public Library - she even got to play detective, tracking down clues about mysterious old volumes. But she didn't expect her sleuthing skills to come in so handy in a little seaside town....   

Detective Constable Oliver Cole is called in from a rare day off work to visit The Caledonian Hotel in Newcastle Upon Tyne where a body of a middle-aged man has been discovered in suspicious circumstances. An Elvis Presley impersonator has been murdered and left naked and tied to his bed with a knife protruding from his chest, and Oliver is set to embark upon his second major case with DCI Jack Collier. The case, however, is not as straightforward as it first appears as Oliver soon discovers that the dead man, David Forest, has been living in hiding for over 15 years from the Glasgow ...

A veces, la verdad mata... Tricia y Ethan acaban de casarse y están a la búsqueda de la casa de sus sueños. Pero cuando visitan la remota mansión que una vez perteneció a la doctora Adrienne Hale, una reconocida psiquiatra que desapareció sin dejar rastro hace cuatro años, una feroz tormenta los deja atrapados. Mientras busca un libro para entretenerse hasta que pare de nevar, Tricia tropieza con una habitación secreta que contiene las transcripciones de las conversaciones con todos y cada uno de los pacientes que trató la doctora Hale.

Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrió un asesinato desconcertante 27 años atrás, con la determinación de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Román, sólo unas horas después de su matrimonio con la bella Ángela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La atribulada familia fuerza a la novia a revelar el nombre de su primer amante; y los hermanos gemelos de ella anuncian su intención de matar a Santiago Nasar por haber deshonrado a su hermana.

ÉL PUBLICA SUS CRÍMENES MINUTOS ANTES DE COMETERLOS. ELLA NO SE DETENDRÁ HASTA ENCONTRARLO.INFIDELIS, EL CASO QUE CONVULSIONARÁ AL PAÍS ENTERO. ¿TE ATREVES A LEERLO? El cuerpo de Daniela aparece sin vida en un hotel a las afueras de San Sebastián. Esperaba a su amante en la habitación cuando la sorprendió una muerte brutal y violenta: esposada con los ojos vendados para simular un inocente juego sexual, y apuñalada. La inspectora Adriana Collante acude a la escena del crimen para hacerse cargo de la investigación.

Juan Pablo Castel es un pintor recluido en prisión por el asesinato de María Iribarne. Durante su encierro rememora la cadena de acontecimientos que lo llevaron a perder el control, a convertirse en un hombre con el interior oscuro, un hombre poseído por una insalvable...

Isolda Durant es una joven experta en arte que trabaja para una prestigiosa fundación. Tras recibir una invitación para asistir a la subasta de un manuscrito cátaro del siglo XIII, viaja a Malmont, un pequeño pueblo de los Pirineos catalanes. La joven acude allí por curiosidad, debido al misterio de la invitación y a la singularidad del objeto que se va a subastar. Según la leyenda, el manuscrito está maldito: todos los que lo han poseído han tenido una muerte violenta.

Un cuerpo decapitado aparece en el centro de Madrid. La escena del crimen se inspira en el Infierno de Dante. En su piel, una inscripción en clave. Una inspectora con cicatrices. Una serie de asesinatos rituales. Y una cuenta atrás escrita en sangre. La inspectora Minerva Cadalso, acompañada por Claudio Addante, un joven seminarista experto en símbolos religiosos, se adentra en una red de crímenes de trasfondo religioso.

Hace treinta años, en un terreno baldío de un barrio tranquilo, apareció descuartizado y quemado el cadáver de una adolescente. La investigación se cerró sin culpables y su familia -de clase media educada, formal y católica- silenciosamente se fue resquebrajando Pero, pasado ese largo tiempo, la verdad oculta saldrá a la luz gracias al persistente amor del padre de la víctima. Esa verdad mostrará con crudeza lo que se esconde detrás de las apariencias; la crueldad a la que pueden llevar la obediencia y el fanatismo religioso.

«Juliana cae al vacío, lleva un vestido blanco, vaporoso, que se agita en el aire, pero en vez de estrellarse contra el piso, justo antes de llegar, mueve sus brazos y vuela como una mariposa». Verónica Balda es periodista y conduce uno de los programas de radio más escuchados de la mañana. Cierto día, recibe una noticia que cambiará por completo el curso de su vida: una joven cayó de un quinto piso en el barrio de Recoleta.